Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Design Thinking movie

     I'm a documentary buff, so this format is usually pretty easy for me to swallow but I was especially interested in how they tackled the idea of design thinking. I've heard the term defined many times, usually in a kind of cliche "no bad ideas" "think outside the box" type of way but this film took an interesting view point. Essentially the argument seemed to be that design thinking is a way of encouraging productive methods for problem solving in any given situation. Design thinking then becomes less of a set of rules to stay outside the normal realm of reasoning, and instead a person centered approach moving towards understanding the systems in which people work, and providing for creative collaboration within those systems. The examples of design thinking illustrated through the community cooking class and the design consulting firm were very different and for good reason. To try to apply a single definitive approach for encouraging open communication and creative thought to both of these situations would result in neither being as effective as possible.
      This is not to say that no to say there are no commonalities between the design thinking tactics. Generally the themes of quick iteration, equal voice for all parties, open minded collection of data are embraced. The design thinking movement primarily seems to be a growing acceptance of tactics that are out of the social norms, and this divergence creates opportunities for a wider range of participants in these systems. With a greater range of participants comes a greater propensity for social, idealogical, and innovative change.

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